SET Exam 2024: SET English Online Coaching, Syllabus, Study Material

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LBS Kerala SET Exam Importance

Kerala SET English

Kerala SET English Eligibility

SET Exam Syllabus: English

SET Previous Question Papers

SET English Online Coaching

Overview

LBS Kerala SET Exam is one of the most anticipated qualifying examination in the state. SET examination is being conducted by LBS institute of Science and Technology. Out of the 35 optional subjects English has one of the highest number of candidates. Get prepared for SET English with the best online coaching platform which has produced the top Kerala SET result in 2024.

LBS Kerala SET Exam Importance

LBS Kerala SET exam is an important certifying test conducted by LBS Centre for Science and Technology. A pass certificate in Kerala SET exam is a crucial eligibility for Kerala HSST and NVHSE Teaching candidates, aspiring for a teaching job in government sector. Therefore, all candidates aspiring for apex teaching position in school education must clear LBS SET exam.

Kerala SET English

SET English is one of the highly competed subjects in Kerala SET exam. Candidates applied for the exam should undertake a serious and intense coaching in order to clear the test in the upcoming LBS SET exam 2024.

Kerala SET English Eligibility

Candidates who are applying for SET English should have earned a Master's degree in English Literature with at least 50% marks or an equivalent grade. The candidates must have acquired a B.Ed. degree in English from any universities in Kerala, or from any other university recognized as equivalent thereto, are eligible to apply.

Also, candidates who have earned a Master’s Degree in Communicative English with a minimum of 50% of marks or equivalent grade and B.Ed, are also eligible to appear for LBS SET English exam.

SET Exam Syllabus: English

The syllabus of LBS SET English exam extends from the age of Chaucer to the Contemporary trends in English literature. Find the Unit-wise details of the English SET examination syllabus.

Unit I

Module 01: Chaucer’s Age
Module 02: Early Renaissance in England
Module 03: Late Renaissance England
Module 04: Beginning of English Prose
Module 05: Rise of English drama
Module 06: Revenge Tragedy
Module 07: Elizabethan Theatre
Module 08: Shakespeare
Module 09: Language – Folio – Quarto – Shakespearean Sonnets
Module 10: Metaphysical Poetry
Module 11: Reformation
Module 12: Milton
Module 13: The Restoration
Module 14: Neoclassical age
Module 15: Heroic Drama
Module 16: Popular Prose Writing
Module 17: Dryden and Pope
Module 18: Dr: Johnson
Module 19: Rise of the novel
Module 20: Transition Poetry

Unit II

Module 01: Beginning of Romanticism
Module 02: Preface to the Lyrical Ballads Module
Module 03: Early Romantics
Module 04: Later Romantics
Module 05: Gothic Novel
Module 06: Historical Novel
Module 07: Prose
Module 08: Early Feminist Writing
Module 09: Beginnings of the Victorian Age
Module 10: Victorian Poetry
Module 11: Pre-Raphaelites
Module 12: Aestheticism
Module 13: Victorian Prose
Module 14: Victorian Biography
Module 15: Victorian Novel
Module 16: Hardy
Module 17: Victorian Women Novelists
Module 18: Victorian Drama
Module 19: Transition
Module 20: Victorian Age and the Colonial Enterprise

Unit III

20th Century and Contemporary British Literature

Module 01: Edwardian period
Module 02: War Poets
Module 03: Pink Poets
Module 04: Avant
Module 05: Modernist Poetry
Module 06: Verse drama
Module 07: World War II and its aftermath
Module 08: Ted Hughes
Module 09: Prose- G:K: Chesterton
Module 10: 20th Century Novel
Module 11: Early modernism
Module 12: Stream of consciousness
Module 13: Dystopian literature
Module 14: Post war fiction
Module 15: Drama
Module 16: Irish dramatic movement
Module 17: Post-war drama
Module 18: Theatre of the Absurd
Module 19: Recent trends in British Writing
Module 20: Immigrant Writing

Unit IV

American, Indian and New Literatures in English

Module 1: Pilgrim Fathers
Module 2: 19th and 20th century American
Module 3: Robert Frost
Module 4: 19th century American Novel
Module 5: 20th century American Novel
Module 6: Harlem Renaissance
Module 6 American Drama
Module 7: The beginnings of Indian Poetry in English
Module 8: Indian English Poetry today
Module 9: Indian English Novel Early Phase
Module 10: Indian English Novel Today
Module 11: Indian English Drama
Module 12: African Literature and Colonialism
Module 13: African Literature and Post Colonialism
Module 14: Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
Module 15: Caribbean Literary Tradition
Module 16: Canadian literature
Module 17: Canadian Literature
Module 18: Australian literary history
Module 19: Patrick White
Module 20: South Asian Literature

Unit V

History and Structure of English and English Language Teaching

Module 1: The Sound system of English
Module 2: English phonology
Module3: English morphology
Module 4: Semantics
Module 5: The Indo-European family of languages
Module 6: Old English
Module 7: Middle English
Module 8: English at the Renaissance
Module 9: English overseas
Module 10: English in the postcolonial world
Module 11: Approaches to language learning
Module 12: Theory of language
Module 13: History of English Teaching in India
Module 14: English as a Second language (ESL)
Module 15: Methods of language teaching
Module 16: Learner factors
Module 17: Classroom procedures
Module 18: Teaching materials/aids
Module 19: Tests and evaluation
Module 20: Keywords

Unit VI

Literary Theory and Criticism

Module 1: Aristotle
Module 2: Romanticism
Module 3: Matthew Arnold
Module 4: William Empson
Module 5: Liberal Humanism
Module 6: Marxist Criticism
Module 7: Saussure
Module 8: Psychoanalysis
Module 9: Modernism
Module 10: Post structuralism
Module 11: Feminism
Module 12: Gender and Sexuality
Module 13: Postcolonialism
Module 14: Cultural Materialism and New Historicism
Module 15: Dalit Aesthetics
Module 16: Theories of Translation
Module 17: Cultural Studies
Module 18: Green Studies
Module 19: Indian Aesthetics
Module 20: Alamkara

SET Previous Question Papers

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Kerala SET Exam English sample questions

Stevens the elderly butler is a character in:
1. Northanger Abbey
2. Brideshead Revisited
3. The Remains of the Day
4. A Handful of Dust
‘The Academy of Lagado’ is described in the work:
1. Gulliver’s Travels
2. The Grammarian’s Funeral
3. The Man Who Was Thursday
4. The Man Who Would Be King
In hypotheses regarding the development of Creole vernaculars, the term ‘substrate’ refers to:
1. The local non-European languages
2. The European colonial languages
3. An intermediary language
4. A newly created language
Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.’ These are the closing lines of:
1. The Long Voyage
2. Breathes There The Man
3. To His Coy Mistress
4. Flying Crooked
Who declared that “Technology is the new God, and the astronauts are the high priests of the new religion”?
1. Marshall McLuhan
2. Hannah Arendt
3. Eric Fromm
4. Goerge Steiner
The Temple is a collection of poems by:
1. Thomas Crew
2. Robert Herrick
3. George Herbert
4. Richard Crashaw
The fall of the prison of Bastille that marks the beginning of the French revolution occurred in----.
1. July 14,1789
2. August 14,1789
3. September 5,1779
4. July 10,1788.
The journal started by the Pre-Raphaelites to promote their ideals:
1. The Germ
2. The Rambler
3. The Tatler
4. The London Chronicle
A Doppelgänger story written by Edgar Allen Poe:
1. “The Gold-Bug”
2. “William Wilson”
3. “The Oval Portrait”
4. “The Purloined Letter”
The line – “My father, sceptic, rationalist, trying every curse and blessing, powder, mixture, herb, and hybrid” occurs in the poem ----
1. Jewish Wedding in Bombay
2. Poet, Lover, Bird Watcher
3. Night of the Scorpion
4. Enterprise
The Zone of Proximal Development Theory is associated with:
1. Bruner
2. Vygotsky
3. Piaget
4. Skinner
The second wave feminism started in the United States with the publication of:
1. A Room of One’s Own
2. The Laugh of Medusa
3. The Feminine Mystique
4. Sexual Politics

Answer Key
Q.No.	Ans.
01	c
02	a
03	a
04	c
05	c
06	c
07	a
08	a
09	b
10	c
11	b
12	c

SET English Online Coaching

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